Enterprise and Heritage: Cross Currents of National Culture

The phenomena of 'enterprise' and 'heritage' might at first thought seem unrelated: this book sets out to show that the two concepts are not only related but deeply interdependent. If 'enterprise' can be used to define the official encouragement of the values of the market society, then the growth of the heritage industry can be seen as a manifestation of the entrepreneurial spirit - marketing the past so that it is accessible to the man or woman in the street. Using case studies, commentary and critique, the contributors to this lively volume discuss the importance of 'enterprise' and 'heritage' in British social and cultural life, with examples drawn from film, television, literature, urban planning, architecture, government advertising, information technology and tourism. Introduction : Great Britain Limited / John Corner And Sylvia Harvey -- Tradition And Translation : National Culture In Its Global Context / Kevin Robins -- Mediating Tradition And Modernity : The Heritage/enterprise Couplet / John Corner And Sylvia Harvey -- Where Horses Shit A Hundred Sparrows Feed : Docklands And East London During The Thatcher Years / Bill Schwarz -- Enterprise And Heritage In The Dock / Adrian Mellor -- The Old And New Worlds Of Information Technology In Britain / Maureen Mcneil -- (cont.)the Age Of Leisure / Ken Worpole -- Up Where You Belong : Hollywood Images Of Big Business In The 1980s / Judith Williamson -- Commerce And Culture / Robert Hewison -- Over Our Shoulders : Nostaligic Screen Fictions For The 1980s / Tana Wollen -- Echoes Of Empire : Towards A Politics Of Representation / Yasmin Ali -- Re-imagining The City / Franco Bianchini And Hermann Schwengel. Edited By John Corner And Sylvia Harvey. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [235]-263) And Index. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Notes on contributors......Page 7 Introduction: Great Britain Limited......Page 10 Tradition and translation: national culture in its global context......Page 30 Mediating tradition and modernity: the heritage/ enterprise couplet......Page 54 Where horses shit a hundred sparrows feed: Docklands and East London during the Thatcher years......Page 84 Enterprise and heritage in the dock......Page 100 The old and new worlds of information technology in Britain......Page 122 The age of leisure......Page 142 'Up Where You Belong': Hollywood images of big business in the 1980s......Page 156 Commerce and culture......Page 166 Over our shoulders: nostalgic screen fictions for the 1980s......Page 182 Echoes of empire: towards a politics of representation......Page 198 Re-imagining the city......Page 216 Using case studies, commentary and critique, the contributors discuss the importance of the two concepts "enterprise" and "heritage" in British social and cultural life, with examples from film, television, literature, urban planning, architecture and tourism This chapter is about changing geographies - particularly the new forces of globalization that are now shaping our times - and what they mean for the economic and cultural life of contemporary Britain.